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To the Editor: In ''Who's Poor? Don't Ask the Census Bureau'' (Op-Ed, Sept. 26), Jared Bernstein sends a helpful message about the woeful inadequacy of the United States definition of poverty. The adjustments he proposes would come much closer...

October 3, 2003, Friday

To the Editor: Re ''Parched, Big Steel Goes to Its Washington Well'' (Jan. 20), which discusses the steel industry's lobbying efforts to receive federal help to pay for employee retirement benefits and to impose tariffs on foreign steel.

February 3, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: President Bush's focus on the evildoers who must be sought (front page, Jan. 30) omits an important question that we have yet to engage: What United States policies, practices and institutions sustain the climate in which even...

January 31, 2002, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''It's Time to Terror-Proof Markets'' (On the Contrary, Oct. 7), in which Daniel Akst said the nation should never again let its enemies paralyze its business life: Mr. Akst said that no one should be ashamed of making money,...

January 17, 2001, Wednesday

To the Editor: Heather Mac Donald's call to ''revive marriage'' to end poverty and protect poor children reverses cause and effect (letter, July 11). The ''explosion of out-of-wedlock births'' among black women closely parallels the decline in job...

July 13, 1999, Tuesday

To the Editor: David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, faults the President's child care approach as a subsidy to the children of the more affluent and the large corporations where they work (Op-Ed, Dec. 19). He prefers...

''Like Oil and Water: A Tale of Two Economists,'' by Louis Uchitelle (Feb. 16), examined the contrasting views of Paul Krugman and Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, particularly their explanations for the growth of income...